Indentification of CfNek, a novel member of the NIMA family of cell cycle regulators, as a polypeptide copurifying with tubulin polyglutamylation activity in Crithidia

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5003-5012

  Westermann, Stefan ^a   Weber, Klaus ^b  

^a University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Crithidia; NIMA kinases; Polyglutamylation; Post translational modification; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID; BETA CASEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCINE; HYDROXYAPATITE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NICKEL; PLECKSTRIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN CFNEK; PROTEIN KINASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NEK1 PROTEIN KINASE; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; FLAGELLUM; KINETOSOME; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CRITHIDIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CRITHIDIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUBULIN;

EID: 0037115726     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00170     Document Type: Article

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